Using HTML entities in the text of a RadComboBoxItem control

[Trevor]

I'm trying to pad the text of a RadComboBoxItem with spaces (to create a sense of hierarchy).  This works fine with a regular HTML select control:

<select>
    <option>Item 1</option>
    <option>&nbsp;&nbsp;Item 1.1</option>
    <option>&nbsp;&nbsp;Item 1.2</option>
    <option>Item 2</option>
    <option>&nbsp;&nbsp;Item 2.1</option>
    <option>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Item 2.1.1</option>
    <option>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Item 2.1.2</option>
    <option>Item 3</option>
    <option>&nbsp;&nbsp;Item 3.1</option>
    <option>&nbsp;&nbsp;Item 3.2</option>
</select>

However, when I try to set the text property of a RadComboBoxItem using html entities ( ), the control seems to be escaping the characters so it shows up exactly as typed instead of showing up as an actual space:item.Text = padding + asset.AssetName;

string padding = "";
for(int i = 0; i < depth; i++)
    padding += " ";
RadComboBoxItem item = new RadComboBoxItem();
item.Value = asset.AssetID.ToString();
item.Text = padding + asset.AssetName;
item.Enabled = (asset.Type == AssetType.AppSet);
item.Selected = (asset.AssetID == ParentAssetID);
rcb.Items.Add(item);

Any ideas about how to prevent the RadComboBox from escaping HTML entities?

[Shinu]

Hello Tervor,

Take a look at the following forum post which discussed similar scenario.
Problem During Rendering of HTML Tag text on Rad Combobox

Thanks,
Shinu.

[Sandeep]

Hi
I also have similar problem with rad combobox . here i am bind combo with encoded html and tried with item template as well with Server.HtmlDecode , initially it works fine but on item selected it's again encode the item. still have problem , i don't want to iterate my result set to decode and rows before bind combo. please suggest any solution.

[Nencho]

Hello Sandeep,

Could you please demonstrate us the implementation that you use at your end, so we could inspect your proper scenario and pinpoint the problem locally?

Regards,
Nencho
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